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The story of Cadbury Roses Pouch
Somebody has had all the good ones
Christmas afternoon, the telly on, and the Roses come out. Everybody has a favourite and nobody admits it until it has gone. By Boxing Day there is a sad little pile of the ones nobody wanted, and a hunt down the side of the sofa for the ones they did. If that was your British Christmas, these are the same Cadbury Roses, from the firm that started in a Birmingham grocer's shop in 1824. A taste of home at Christmas in Canada, arguments included.
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A grocer with a conscience
John Cadbury opened his shop at 93 Bull Street in Birmingham in 1824, selling tea, coffee and drinking chocolate he prepared himself. He was a Quaker, and he promoted drinking chocolate partly as a respectable alternative to alcohol, which is a brave pitch in any British city. From 1831 the business moved into factory production on Bridge Street. In 1861 his sons, Richard and George, took over, and in 1866 they used a Dutch cocoa-pressing method to launch the purer Cocoa Essence.
A village with no pubs
In 1879 the brothers opened a purpose-built factory at Bournville, south-west of Birmingham. George then turned Bournville into a model village for the workers, famous for having no public houses. Their father would have been delighted. Dairy Milk arrived in 1905 and was the best-seller by 1914, and in 1928 came the glass and a half of full-cream milk, which you can probably still picture without trying. Cadbury merged with J. S. Fry & Sons in 1919 and with Schweppes in 1969.
Still Bournville, still arguing
Kraft Foods acquired Cadbury in 2010, and these days it is part of Mondelez International, created when Kraft split in 2012. The chocolate is still made in Britain at the historic Bournville factory in Birmingham, where the brothers set up in 1879. Which brings us back to the coffee table, the Christmas film nobody is really watching, and a hand reaching in for one more. Go on. Nobody is counting. Everybody is counting.